I guess the battle of charge connectors continue. When I look old articles (2012 and prior), lots of people saying Chademo was dead, as it's not supported by the big leagues. But today, it's still alive and well.

Oh well, as long the RAC electric highway have ALL of them, I don't care

Not yet, but they are up on Plugshare, which has a not-so-real-time option for status updates.

The RAC and E-Station are workong on a driver management system which allows you to see in advance if a charger is in use or out of order. Pre-booking is definitely not going to happen. Too much opportunity for the charger to be reserved only to have a no-show ruin your day.

The big launch is on Monday the 22nd, so it would be great if as many EVs could make the launch and enjoy the drive. Mandurah is expected to go online at about 3 pm tomorrow afternoon (Saturday).

For those going on the convoy to Margaret River for the launch of the Electric Highway, and I am so envious, just remember that although there are multiple outlets at each station, one style of outlet for 20 cars of same for 30mins each equates to 10 hours total. This will not be a problem normally but just saying . . .and a natural rhythm will develop as cars are spaced along the "highway"

If one of the EVs is a Tesla, you can charge two cars at once, but you'll have to ask the Tesla to switch to the fast AC. Otherwise the 3.3 kW / 7 kW AC charge bollard is available while you wait. Hey - when do EV drivers not want to hang around and chat?

offgridQLD wrote: " 20 cars of same for 30mins each equates to 10 hours total"

Whats the duty cycle of the chargers? Can they even pump out a DC fast charge at 100% duty cycle for 10hrs?

Don't break it on the first day

Sure wish we had a few more DC fast charger this side of the country.

kurt

We've successfully charged two Teslas from the same unit - one at 23 kW on 3p AC and the other on ChaDeMo at 46 kW. Both sat there for an hour charging away happily. Meanwhile the L2 charger was charging another Tesla at 7.2 kW while the humble 15 A GPO was keeping things honest at a mere 2 kW

Very impressed with the quality of these chargers - a solid product for sure.

jonescg wrote:
We've successfully charged two Teslas from the same unit - one at 23 kW on 3p AC and the other on ChaDeMo at 46 kW. Both sat there for an hour charging away happily. Meanwhile the L2 charger was charging another Tesla at 7.2 kW while the humble 15 A GPO was keeping things honest at a mere 2 kW

Very impressed with the quality of these chargers - a solid product for sure.

I'm waiting for a summer test, before being impressed. problem I saw when looking at a lot of the european chargers was a low heat rating. circontrol at least has 45degree C. most were at best 40 DBT, aker wade etc..

I assume it's air cooled so hopefully you've already done a air filter maintenance schedule.

Yeah, they have two filter intakes and the heat is blown from the top. The fans are serious - they are the spinning drum type and they pull lots of air through. We get some miserably hot days (weeks?) over here, so Summer will be the big test.